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- noun Plural form of
fountainhead .
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For the artists who were the fountainheads of modernism actually lived in social settings quite coherent and orderly by today's standards.
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For the artists who were the fountainheads of modernism actually lived in social settings quite coherent and orderly by today's standards.
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Christie's got another piece of good news Monday, when a French judge dismissed a request by the Chinese government to stop the auction house from offering a pair of Qing dynasty bronze fountainheads within the estate sale.
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So it looks like Pierre Bergé will get to keep his stunning Chinese bronze fountainheads after all.
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Estimate: $13 million A French judge dismissed a request by the Chinese government to stop the auction house from offering these fountainheads.
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Chinese collector and auctioneer Cai Mingchao says he purposefully sabotaged the sale of these fountainheads at Christie's three-day auction of Yves Saint Laurent's estate as protest of the sale.
Auction Block Drama 2009
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So it looks like Pierre Bergé will get to keep his stunning Chinese bronze fountainheads after all.
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So it looks like Pierre Bergé will get to keep his stunning Chinese bronze fountainheads after all.
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When the Chinese demanded the return of the imperial bronze fountainheads, Bergé said that if they recognized human rights, gave liberty to the Tibetan people, and welcomed the Dalai Lama he would give it to them.
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For the Phoenix, Brett Michel previews the Korean Film Festival running at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through Sunday: Rather than focus on the fountainheads of modern Korean cinema, this new series relies on the emerging voices, a generation that appears content to explore similar themes from film to film.
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